Moving to New York to avoid state death taxes? “When your bordering state is telling you, ‘Come on over!’ the pitch is compelling,” McManus says. “If New York has a more welcoming tax scheme, then people will say, ‘Let’s call me a New York resident.’” McManus says...

The heads of ultra-high-net-worth families often have different views of how money should be bequeathed than those who will inherit it, according to a recent study. For every planner considering the inheritance to leave and the arrangements to make, there is also a...